"Pressure campaign" is a funny word for terrorism by drone.

The confounding island.

The thing striking me hardest about Jamaica is the lack of public amenities.

The self is a useful illusion. Don't get too wrapped up in it.

Man, this is dark. youtube.com/watch?v=DQTv...

In 2025 reparations became central to UK ties with the Caribbean and Africa – so how do we move forward? | Kenneth Mohammed www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Imagine someone you've never interacted with blocking you because you follow someone else. Wild.

This 🇺🇸🇦🇬 diplomatic trouble is odd. I don't know what's at the bottom of it. However, I *do* know the issue, whatever it is, isn't new. There was something afoot during the last administration too.

It's midnight in a perfect world.

Good. The best thing about this administration is their penchant for action. Just do stuff, process and protocol be damned. Lots of Gordian knot cutting. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

I used to spend a lot of time trying to decipher what I thought was people's intellectual contradictions and incoherence. These days I just assume they're lying. Occam's razor is still sharp.

UK visa fees are eye-watering.

The Jamaican governments loan to the power company was the kind of power move that's only possible with fiscal space. It completely changed the license negotiation dynamic. They couldn't pull it off without cash. There are lessons there.

The collapse of the old powers is catastrophic, but we've been through catastrophes before. We'll mourn the losses and move on. Already seeing the realignments happen. We gon' be alright.

Understanding the large-scale climate drivers of Sargassum blooms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On this matter, Secretary Rubio is correct. Reforms in this manner, done correctly and followed to their full and logical conclusion (e.g. with respect to how procurement is done), will save money and do more good. youtube.com/watch?v=sDcz...

The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A good read, which forced me to go way back into my political economy bag. Is Climate Change an Externality? lpeproject.org/blog/is-clim...

Ralph Gonsalves loses an election. Surely the second coming is at hand. share.google/ThhB63p5HRvI...

The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

It is right and just.

Jamaica's PM is doing a good job. (Never mind the saucy video title, it's just a clip from Jamaican public TV.) youtu.be/-rTAba4BrYM?...

Are you watching closely? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Internal colonization. youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...

"COP30 ends with a whimper - The climate conference acknowledged that more climate action is needed, then failed to provide it" via @economist.com [paywalled]: www.economist.com/internationa... #COP30

So be it. The real action is elsewhere.

The car antlers are out. It's not even Advent yet.

The internet is serving me Patek Philippe ads. Perhaps they know something I don't about the next few quarters.

Loving how Jamaica's World Bank resident representative has embraced our peculiar use of language. Thus, the phrase is not "build back better"; instead, it is "build forward better." Sizzla Kalongi should be proud of himself.

For years, Washington has been warning others not to trust loans from Chinese state banks fueling its rise as a superpower. But a new report reveals an ironic twist: The United States is the biggest recipient of all — by far.

It's a shame that collective action is so hard to muster on the biggest collective action problem of our time, but so it is. Rather than waiting for "them," change the facts on the ground as you can.

Sounds familiar.

Building out the clean, resilient infrastructure of the future is *the* long-term path for economic growth for those who want it. www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...

"They are killing us and they are watching us die. It's honestly crazy how the big polluting countries don't give a crap about us." youtu.be/il2pFwBKdj8?...

It seems I can't deny Some days just don't feel right I think I feel, I feel much better At night

Roc Nation's marketing for "Let God Sort 'Em Out" is masterful. Haven't seen anything like this for a hip-hop album rollout, ever.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

ChatGPT writing style is so weird. So many odd hyphens and em dashes.

I need a materialist analysis of anti-vaccine movements. What class, economic, or material interests are at play? I ask because I honestly cannot wrap my head around it. Why would a society do this to itself?

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

Some Jamaican have been turning to rooftop solar power. After Melissa, it paid off. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

You could pay the man, or you could buy GM, Ford and Stellantis and have several hundred billion dollars left over. I guess that's a toss-up.

Hearing from friends and colleagues in Jamaica about the devastation in the west. Heart-rending stuff.

Melissa hit the heard to Jamaica's productive sector - agriculture and tourism, especially. Oof.

Jamaica's PM says Melissa did USD$6-7B of damage, as an early estimate. About 1/3rd of GDP. Likely a conservative figure. Oof.

I'm listening to the PM of 🇯🇲 emphasizing the need for resilience-building in his speech at the first sitting of Parliament after Melissa. Good.